I gave it a try, my impression is this: I’m looking at an AI generated image, and describing it based on AI generated hints, and my description is judged by an AI. The UI is fairly janky on my phone and not very appealing, though I like how it places the hints over the picture.

The fact that it’s all genAI stuff puts me off, but that might not be the same for everyone.

I think crucially, if I wanted to do this kind of challenge, I would have a better experience just using an LLM chat directly, like “Generate me an image, then judge my description of it in <language>, and give me useful language learning hints according to my level of <level>”

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detectivestory 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Thanks for the feedback. The images come from pixabay, pexels, and my own camera, some will be AI generated, most aren't - they are selected for their suitability in learning certain vocabulary. The hints are all manually added. AI is used for translations (although I am in the process of replacing most translations for the non-beta languages with professional translations) and feedback. If you found the web app UI to be "janky" maybe you could try install the native app for your device.

	▲	__jonas 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I see, thanks for explaining the image and hint selection process. I guess I got unlucky then, as today's image is an AI one, and my impression that the hints were generated came from the fact that there is that 'refresh' button that seems to bring up slight variations of the hints, which I assumed came straight from an LLM. I'll admit, "janky" is not very useful feedback. The first thing that gave me that impression was a couple of seconds of loading time showing just the background color, then the whole page background flashing white every time after clicking/tapping something in the onboarding. I get this both on iOS Safari and macOS Firefox. On iOS, the page also crashed at some point with the 'a problem repeatedly occured on <url>' message. Looking at it closer, seems like it's a Flutter web app, so I suppose this is to be expected and the experience is probably indeed better on the iOS/android builds, might be that I was judging too quickly.
	▲	croisillon 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		ok maybe i've been too harsh, one thing i like is the "sa" flag for afrikaans language, this one really shows attention to the details, i'll try restarting my router to see if it persists